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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
SolarWinds today launched an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is specifically designed to function as a member of an IT operations team.
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Techstrong.IT, Monday, April 13th, 2026
There is no shortage of discussion about what AI means for tech leadership. The dominant message is simple: The tools are smarter now, so your job gets easier. That story is appealing - and in some contexts, partially true. But it skips something important, especially if you work in regulated spaces where accountability is not optional, and consequences are real.
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Shadow IT has always been a concern for the IT department. The problem used to be users introducing unauthorized SaaS subscriptions or applications to make their job easier, while initiating new security and management headaches for IT.
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Engineering teams have stayed in the cloud for a decade because owning hardware used to mean owning the maintenance. The trade-off seemed simple. You pay a premium to offload the manual provisioning and operational toil associated with physical nodes.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 8th, 2026
One of the things you learn running infrastructure is that percentages can lie. Back in the dot-com days, I spent a good amount of time in the hosting industry. Reliability was the name of the game. And very early on, I learned that a number that sounds good in marketing can be terrible in the real world.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026
As Windows 10 nears the end of its extended support cycle, hundreds of millions of older PCs are left without security updates or a clear upgrade path. Google is offering a solution: update these vintage machines to ChromeOS Flex.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, April 6th, 2026
A recent article in Gizmodo titled 'Wearables Are Getting Very Messy' highlights a growing wave of disputes in the wearable technology market. The piece points to lawsuits, accusations of copied designs and patent fights spreading across companies building fitness trackers, smart rings and smart glasses.
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Most people know what a bad relationship feels like. There are warning signs. Loss of flexibility. Decisions that get harder over time. A growing sense that leaving would be more painful than staying.
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I've been in IT long enough to remember when Windows shipped on floppy disks and enterprise architecture meant racks, not regions. In that time, I've seen the same cycle repeat itself over and over. A new technology shows up. A pilot gets approved. The pilot goes well enough.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
The concept of a library of everything has existed since the original Library of Alexandria, but in our modern era, that mission has moved into the digital realm. For over 28 years, the Internet Archive has taken on the monumental task of preserving our collective digital history and heritage.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
Tom Lyon showed us, at Cloud Field Day, that history has a funny way of repeating itself, especially when we think we've invented something entirely new. We talk about the cloud like it's a modern miracle, but a look at history shows we're just replaying a script from nearly a century ago.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 30th, 2026
There is a certain romanticism in the way we talk about the 'Global Village' of cloud computing. We like to imagine that our data is as fluid as a Slack message, drifting effortlessly between on-premises data centers, AWS regions, and Azure instances.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, March 27th, 2026
Mozilla has introduced an open source project to address a growing inefficiency in AI systems: their tendency to repeatedly solve the same problems in isolation.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
VDURA this week added a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) capability to its parallel storage platform as part of a first step toward creating a tiering capability to optimize context for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agents in a way that bypasses CPU bottlenecks.
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Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
The tech sector has been grappling with the challenges of a memory chip shortage with the expectation that it will be relatively short-lived. Now it appears that supply constraints could persist for much of the decade, raising costs and complicating the rollout of next-gen AI systems.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 16th, 2026
Let's be honest: network migrations have a reputation-and not a great one. Even in well-prepared organizations, replacing live infrastructure is rarely stress-free. Brownfield environments are layered with dependencies, historical configs, and workarounds.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
The US data center market delivered a record year in 2025, driven largely by AI and hyperscale cloud expansion. Yet even as demand reached unprecedented levels, new construction slowed for the first time in several years, highlighting growing challenges across the country.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
A survey of 750 IT practitioners and leaders published today finds that while nearly two thirds (74%) have adopted monitoring and observability tools, a full 77% said lack of visibility into both in-premises and cloud computing environments remains an issue, with 37% describing it as a major issue for their IT teams.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Ask any IT leader with aging infrastructure what keeps them up at night, and you'll likely hear about the pressure to modernize without disrupting the business.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 9th, 2026
Physicists have a concept called the observer effect. In certain systems, the act of observing a phenomenon changes the phenomenon itself.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, March 9th, 2026
Seagate's hard drives that can store up to 44 terabytes, part of its Mozaic 4+ platform, are now deployed by hyperscalers, the company announced. The platform uses heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), a technology that boosts storage density beyond what conventional hard drive designs can support.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Across the United States, leading tech companies are advancing plans to construct data centers that operate independently of the traditional power grid. Rather than wait years for utilities to approve new grid connections, these firms are pairing server campuses with on-site power generation, often fueled by natural gas. The result is the early formation of a parallel energy network built to serve the demands of AI.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, February 27th, 2026
As organizations migrate to the cloud platform, they have been exploring ways to better leverage its advantages while minimizing the environmental impact. To do this, organizations must utilize green cloud computing.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
A global survey of 401 senior executives finds that while nearly all (95%) agree that strategic portfolio management (SPM) is critical for business success, only 44% indicate they have an effective SPM process in place today.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
A new global survey of IT professionals can be summed up in one unfortunate truth: enterprise systems remain largely stable, but the overworked people running them are feeling the strain.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
Enterprises are accelerating their investment in AI, but many leaders acknowledge they are moving faster than their organizations can safely manage.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
Despite their similarities, an MCP Server is not an API Gateway, Microsoft engineers advise. It can do so much more, so let it. Slapping a protocol wrapper over an internal API may be a tempting shortcut to quickly build a MCP server, but the end product may only flummox an agent by offering too many choices, which would lead to context confusion, and subpar results
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
Modern AI factories aren't bottlenecked by GPUs anymore; they're bottlenecked by the networks feeding them. At AIIFD4, Xsight made a compelling case that fixed-function silicon can't keep up with AI-era requirements, and then backed it up with real deployments, shipping products, and verified performance numbers.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
At AI Infrastructure Field Day 4 (AIIFD4), one message was unmistakable: the AI era is being shaped by data, and storage is finally taking center stage. Whether you work in data center operations or you're charting an AI strategy at the executive level, you already feel the pressure.
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
In the middle of a busy warehouse, a robot pauses. It's not because the battery is dead or the route is blocked. It's because the wireless signal dipped for a fraction of a second while it was switching between access points.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Drawing on Nokia Bell Labs' reliability model, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn show why configuration, automation, and disciplined operations - not just infrastructure - are the real levers behind five-nines data center availability.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
Western Digital is laying out an ambitious hard disk drive roadmap, signaling its belief that spinning media will remain a core part of AI infrastructure well into the next decade. At its Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital detailed a multi-year strategy built around HDD capacity increases, significant gains in performance, lower power consumption, and a software layer designed to simplify deployment at scale.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer just reshaping compute infrastructure, it is now fundamentally altering how data moves across networks. That's the central conclusion of Backblaze's Q4 2025 Network Stats report, which draws on real-world production traffic to reveal how AI workloads are driving new trends in network traffic.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, February 2nd, 2026
A few months back, when Satya Nadella suggested that SaaS was dead, or at least dying, plenty of people dismissed it as provocation. Bold, maybe. Wrong, definitely. Except here we are. And the stock market, which has a habit of cutting through comfortable narratives, seems to be nodding along.
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 29th, 2026
Learn how Nokia IT modernized complex brownfield data centers without downtime by applying software-engineering discipline, automation, and digital twins to network operations.
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Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Wi-Fi 7 is set for fast adoption, with industry research firm Dell'Oro Group saying enterprise buying of Wi-Fi 7 gear has climbed sharply since early 2025. Dell'Oro characterizes current Wi-Fi 7 pricing as unusually low, providing an adoption boost that could compress refresh cycles for businesses relying on Wi-Fi 6 and 6E.
more → Techstrong.IT, Monday, January 26th, 2026
Based on a global survey of enterprise IT leaders, Mitch Ashley and Scott Robohn explore why reliability has overtaken cost, performance, and features as the foundation of modern, AI-driven data center networking.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
The global data intelligence, analytics, and infrastructure (DIAI) market is projected to grow at a 17% compound annual growth rate through 2028 off a base of $541.1 billion in 2026 to exceed $1.2 trillion by 2031, according to a forecast published today by the Futurum Group.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 23rd, 2026
To understand 2026, let's start with what happened in 2025. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud didn't just grow; they grew at scale. Combined, they crossed well north of $300B in annual cloud revenue, still expanding around 20-30% year over year.
more → Techstrong.IT, Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Three years ago, I sat in a conference room watching a vendor demo 'self-healing infrastructure' that would 'eliminate downtime forever'. Fast forward to today, and I'm still getting paged for the same EC2 instance running out of memory.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 16th, 2026
As many organizations expedite the adoption of cloud, a single question consistently dominates the leadership table: Should cloud be treated purely as another data center with centralized control? Or should teams be fully authorized with guardrails?
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 15th, 2026
Organizations today generate unprecedented volumes of data as AI systems, analytics engines, automation frameworks and digital workflows continue to expand. Yet, despite the rapid growth in data creation, the fundamental behavior of enterprise data has not changed.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 14th, 2026
A new survey has found that infrastructure complexity, rather than technological capability, has become the primary obstacle preventing enterprises from successfully scaling artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026
At the intersection of security and operations, we're seeing a new discipline emerge. Commvault calls it ResOps, a blend of DevOps, SecOps, and FinOps with a wide view over the business's applications and data.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Edge computing isn't about putting a small computer in a remote location and hoping for the best. It's a complete shift in how we handle applications and data, especially when you start talking about Edge AI.
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Every year when we host Predict, I ask myself the same question before we finalize the agenda. What will truly matter to leaders in the year ahead?
more → Techstrong.IT, Friday, January 9th, 2026
Adopting a multi-cloud approach is an imperative for organizations in today's fast-paced competitive environment to boost their business agility. A multi-cloud strategy is defined as one in which an organization depends on multiple cloud vendors or providers.
more → Techstrong.IT, Thursday, January 8th, 2026
AI continues to reshape infrastructure priorities, driving conversations about how organizations can meet the compute and performance needs of these increasingly powerful applications. However, behind every breakthrough model lies a hidden and growing challenge - storing the massive volumes of unstructured data that AI needs, consumes and creates.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
Data analytics is one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing segments of the technology landscape. Driven by the need to process and interpret huge volumes of varied data, companies are increasingly investing in business intelligence, data visualization and AI-powered analytics tools.
more → Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, January 7th, 2026
Amazon Web Services has implemented a roughly 15% price increase on some of its most powerful GPU-based EC2 Capacity Block instances, a move that will ripple through enterprise machine learning budgets and may even cause concerns about the future direction of cloud pricing.
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